Hi
I am just starting out on OLAP and I was wondering if anyone had any
recommendations on Books for reading?

Kind Regards

Rikesh

(W2K/SQL2K)

I found "Analysis Server Step by Step" a good introduction.

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Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP


"rikesh" <rikesh_patel (AT) website (DOT) com> wrote

Some good books on OLAP and Analysis Services

1. Kimball, Ralph und Ross, Margy. "The Data
Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional
Modeling". Wiley & Sons. 2nd ed. 2002.

2. Kimball, Ralph, Laura Reeves et.al. "The Data
Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for
Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses",
John Wiley & Sons,1998

3. Jacobson, Reed. "Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Analysis Services Step by Step", Microsoft Press,2000

4. Spofford, George. "MDX Solutions: With Microsoft
SQL Server Analysis Services". Wiley & Sons. New York,
2001.

Cheers,
Sanka

I recommend before jumping into AS to have a fundamental understanding of
data marts and design. This link will take you to a slew of articles by My.
Kimball.

http://www.ralphkimball.com/html/articles.html


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Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
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"rikesh" <rikesh_patel (AT) website (DOT) com> wrote

That was supposed to be "Mr." Kimball not "my" Kimball, sounds kinda funny
the other way

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Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
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"Ray Higdon" <sqlhigdon (AT) nospam (DOT) yahoo.com> wrote

Thanks chaps, for the input. Whilst looking on Amazon, I was surprised by
the lack of books available , and some were very old, mainly catering for
SQL7.0.......

Are they getting reading for SQL2003 ??


"rikesh" <rikesh_patel (AT) website (DOT) com> wrote

I got the idea - don't worry!!
"Ray Higdon" <sqlhigdon (AT) nospam (DOT) yahoo.com> wrote